Preface ; Introduction: Racialization in Theory and Practice ; 1. Racialization in the 'Zone of Ambiguity' ; 2. Historical and Contemporary Modes of Racialization ; 3. Ambivalent Documents/Fugitive Pieces: Author, Text, Subject, and Racializations ; 4. Racial Americanization ; 5. Remembered Racialization: Young People and Positioning in Differential Understandings ; 6. The Power of Recall: Writing Against Racial Identity ; 7. White Lives ; 8. Recovering Blackness/Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail's Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence ; 9. White Self-Racialization as Identity Fetishism: Capitalism and the Experience of Colonial Whiteness ; 10. Racialization and 'White European' Immigration to Britain ; 11. Gendered Preferences in Racialized Spheres: Cloning The Physician ; 12. Racialization and hte Public Spheres of the City ; 13. The Uses of Racialization: The Time-Spaces and Subject-Objects of the Raced Body

Contributions by leading scholars from a range of countries and disciplinary backgrounds Explores the utility and limitations of one of the key concepts used to examine race and racism in contemporary society Sheds light on the processes which have shaped our understandings of race from both a historical and contemporary perspective Discusses the concept of racialization from a range of key perspectives, including gender relations, policing, urban communities, youth cultures, immigration, and political life

Contributions by leading scholars from a range of countries and disciplinary backgrounds Explores the utility and limitations of one of the key concepts used to examine race and racism in contemporary society Sheds light on the processes which have shaped our understandings of race from both a historical and contemporary perspective Discusses the concept of racialization from a range of key perspectives, including gender relations, policing, urban communities, youth cultures, immigration, and political life